Tripping 2014: Photo Journal 5: Child Labor In The Mills to Williams College Art, Dinner Of Course
Child mill worker
An exhibit in the town of Adams, Massachusetts, of child mill workers was moving; I have been to several mills that now have exhibits. I have seen photos of the children, babies, who toiled from dawn to night, feeding thread to machines, handling cotton and slipping on oil in their bare fee even in the freezing Winter. They were used because their hands were small and dexterous. Many lost digits and limbs to machines. Finally the child labor laws came into effect.
Lewis Hine’s photographic documentation of child labor–child slavery are a testament to our country’s history. Here are photographs of the exhibit.
Exhibits at the Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, MA: classic to modern.
The Hillel House for Jewish students was designed by Israeli architect Moshe Safdie.
Later, dinner back at Boston Seafood in North Adams.
Child labour: a sad reality also in Italy until the 1950s. My father was apprenticed at 11 and my mother at 13, in the thirties. You have published some great photos.